Desk file



1. PETTY.

Jan. 23, 1923.

DESK FILE FILED MAY2L1921.

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Patented Jan. 23, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PETTY, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

DESK

Application filed Kay 21,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Pnr'rr, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of the city and county of Lebanon, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain. new and useful Improvement in Desk Files, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form 2. art thereof.

.y invention relates to desk files and has for its object to provide such a file with a series of manually operative signals, each displayable at the rear end of the file and by means of which selected individuals will have their attention called to the fact thatthe file contains papers which require their consideration.

The desk file is of a usual tray-like form with a rear wall and referably provided with a series of flaps or eaves forming compartments for papers and bearing distinguishing markings corresponding to the signals which are selectively displayed on the rear face of the rear wall.

The nature of my invention will be best understood as described in connection with the drawings in which Figure l is a perspective view of my improved desk file.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section on line 22 of Fig. 3, and

Figure 3 a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

A indicates the desk file tray of familiar construction. It is made up of sheet metal and has abottom A, tapered sides A A, and a rear wall A on the inner face of which is secured a plate B havin outwardly extending flanges B, B whi i support the rods C, C, which pass through perforations f, f, in the rear edges of the flaps or leaves F, F. etc, which separate the compartments of the file. As shown, the flaps F, F, etc. are numbered consecutively by two sets of numbers one reading from the front and the other from the back of the file and each flap also has inscribed upon it other compartment designations similarly readable.

-Along the top of the rear wall and, as shown, secured to the flange B I providea FILE.

1921. Serial No. 471,517.

series of hinge plates D carrying hinge pins D on which are pivoted a series of flaps E, E etc, the hinge being so located that the flaps when turned forward will rest on top of flange B as shown at E, E Fig. 1 and when turned backward will hang down over the rear face of the rear wall as shown at E, Figs. 1 and 2.

Each flap E, E etc. has a signal, preferably a number displayed on each side of it, one readable from the front when the flap is turned forward and one from the back when the flap is turned backward, and each signal or number corresponds to the signal or number designating one compartment of the file.

In use, the flaps E, E etc. are normally turned inward. The occupant of the desk on which the file rests places documents in the proper compartments of the file and when he desires to call any of such documents to the attention of the person whose duty it is to remove and properly dispose of them he turns the flap E, E etc. corre sponding to the file compartment containing such papers, backward so that it serves as a signal notifying the proper person. to remove the designated papers.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A desk file having a rear wall in combination with a series of manually operatable call signals secured on said rear wall.

2. A desk file comprising a tray having a rear wall, in combination with manually operatable means for displaying on the outside of said rear wall any of a series of call signals.

3. A desk file comprising a tray having a rear wall in combination with a series of signal flaps hinged along the top of said wall and separately rotatable from a normal forwardly extending position to a position in which they extend down over the outer face of the rear wall.

4. A desk file comprising a tray having a. rear wall in combination with a series of signal flaps hinged along the top of said wall and separately rotatable from a normal forwardly extending position to a. position side of said rear Wall any of a series of call signals and a series of compartments supported on the tray having designating 10 marks corresponding to the different call signals.

' JOHN 15ETTY. 

